Welcome to the forums! Congrats on the Grado headphones! I have a pair of SR80i's that I really like. Awesome sound for the money.
I have a setup on my bedside table with an SB3 and a headphone amp. The headphone amp built into the SB3 I found to be noisy. While listening to quieter parts of music or inbetween tracks, I could hear digital noise - probably interference from the internal electronics. I don't know about the cheap Cmoy amps that you see on EBay. They may provide an improvement. You can spend a *lot* of money on a headphone amp. I use this amplifier and I'm very happy with it: http://www.practicaldevices.com/purchase_xm4.htm It's not cheap, but it's not totally exhorbitant. I got the power supply from them too, along with the rechargable battery. I tried using a power supply from Radio Shack and it was very noisy. With the power supply from PD, it is dead quiet. Enjoy! -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 4 Booms, 1 duet, 1 receiver. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeCenter 7.3.3, MusicIP, and SqueezeSlave. Current library stats: 30,015 songs, 2,448 albums, 451 artists. http://www.last.fm/user/maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73217 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
